PANJIM: Lieutenant General Walter Anthony Gustavo Pinto, PVSM passed away peacefully in Pune on March 25, 2021. Husband of late Theresa Pinto, he is survived by sons Kevin and Michael and four grandchildren and a grandson. He was 96.
Pinto was born in Poona, Bombay Presidency to Alexander Pinto and Helen Agnes Pinto. Alexander was from the Gustave Pinto branch of the Pintos of Santa Cruz, Goa. His elder brother, Sydney Alexander, was also an Indian Army Officer who retired as a Major General. His elder sister, Phyllis Mary, served in the Women’s Auxiliary Corps, India.
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Pinto was a General Officer in the Indian Army. He last served as the 8th General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Command. As a major general, he led the 54th Infantry Division on the western front in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, for which he was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal.
He had an amazing zest for life, an atrocious sense of humour that burst out with bangs of laughter that sometimes shocked and often entertained all around him.
